Plus: the departure of Dan.
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This week,
revelations dropped that Mike Pezzullo — the ostensibly apolitical senior public servant — has been playing political games with Liberal Party powerbrokers. As Bernard Keane wrote,
it’s clear now what the Home Affairs secretary has been preoccupied with while running “the most incompetently run agency in the Commonwealth”.
Daniel Andrews also decided to call it a day after nine years as Victorian premier. Guy Rundle dove into Dan’s departing gesture — an audacious housing policy that just might destroy social democracy — and Maeve McGregor looked at Andrews’ replacement,
“political animal” Jacinta Allan.
Elsewhere Michael Bradley asked how Peter Dutton can believe things that are objectively untrue,
Julia Bergin reported ringside as Lidia Thorpe sat down for a Q&A in regional NT on the Voice to Parliament,
and Charlie Lewis reflected on an incredible week of people doing the exact thing they once loudly condemned.
Hope you’re having a great weekend, |
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Jack Callil,
Opinion editor |
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LOLAPEZZULLO |
Mike Pezzullo and the trashing of the Australian Public Service
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BERNARD KEANE |
While Home Affairs has been involved in scandal after scandal, it turns out its secretary Mike Pezzullo was busy playing political games with party powerbrokers.
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Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo in 2021 (Image: AAP/Lukas Coch) |
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YEE-FUI NG |
Public servants are supposed to be apolitical, impartial and act with integrity, otherwise public faith is broken.
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BERNARD KEANE |
Mike Pezzullo's role in Bernard Collaery's trial should be under scrutiny in light of revelations about his ties with Liberal figure Scott Briggs.
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Trans people have always been here
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NOAH RISEMAN |
Despite what those pushing an anti-trans agenda will tell you, Australia has always had trans and gender-diverse people.
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Shan Short, Transgender Liberation Coalition activist Aidy Griffin and then-member for Bligh, Clover Moore (centre) at a benefit in August 1993 (Image: Tom Luscombe, reproduced with his permission) |
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